via Louv Really, really good and interesting song. Just a little cheesy, but really nails a sense of the re-opening of the future. I’m packing for London. I have a feeling that I’m going to be doing a lot more traveling in the next couple of years than in the last few, so I’m sort [...]
Read more →Estimated time of stay: two months minimum. Will likely be back in Iceland after that.
Read more →I think one thing that’s being missed here is that Mormons feel exactly this way about polygamy in many cases. If a man loves a woman, and another woman, and another woman, why are they not free to marry? If it is about love… I really do understand the practical problems with polygamy in a [...]
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Read more →These maps of county-by-county shifts are really amazing. The interesting conclusion – the south moved significantly to the Republican end, even in 2008. That should worry people.
Read more →In a lot of ways, the new year begins now. With a McCain / Palin presidency, the general atmosphere right now would be panic, horror, fleeing – a draft, total loss of faith in America and possibly in democracy (it would have taken massive fraud, for starters) and so on. Right now, the people feel [...]
Read more →Dear President Elect Obama, People are being held for life without charges under US authority. Please, President Obama, fix Guantanamo Bay. Restore America’s honor. America’s national recovery from 9/11 is defined by closing the gaps in the Constitution – indeed, in the very rule of law itself – which the Bush administration opened in response [...]
Read more →1> The laptop is the new desktop – moving essential communications functions on to the Acer Aspire One (AA1) – leaves the MacBook as the workstation frees up a ton of ram, but more importantly, frees up focus. – it seems to be psychologically significant that the subnote is *small* – can’t say why – [...]
Read more →Gift from a dear friend who knows that my mac needs some time in the shop and that I could use a traveling machine. Wikipedia page on the AA1. Four thoughts. 1> Keyboard is very good for the size. 2> Machine is fast – subjectively faster than my Macbook for some operations. 3> Bundled software [...]
Read more →They’re financing this on a community supported model – we send them our money and they do the work that the Government should be funding. I really want to stress that: this is work that should be government funded, the most natural channel being university research funding. But universities have narrow cultural mandates, do not [...]
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